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Sun Devil Giving Day
Myanmar Education Fund
Thursday, March 21 is ASU's biggest philanthropic event of the year, and this is a perfect opportunity for you to support the causes that you are passionate about. Every gift makes a difference. You can give a minimum of $5 that will go directly to the Myanmar Education Fund at ASU Foundation.
The fund will be used to support the costs of online ASU Universal Learner Courses for displaced students in Myanmar whose education have been disrupted due to the recent military coup.
To donate, please visit ASU Foundation Page.
ASU-NEH Summer Institute Workshop: Translation and Traveling Texts
Open for application
The National Endowment for the Humanities and Arizona State University are delighted to present a two-week residential Institute entitled Translation and Traveling Texts: East Asian National Literatures in an Era Without Borders.
Running from Monday, June 17th to Friday, June 28th, 2024, and held in-person at ASU’s Tempe Campus, this Institute will invite twenty-five faculty members and/or doctoral students from institutions of higher education to join us in Tempe.
The NEH provides stipends intended to compensate participants and defray the cost of attendance and room and board during the duration of the Institute. For more information on stipends, eligibility criteria, and expectations for successful applicants, please Click Here.
Although proficiency in at least one East Asian language may be useful, this is not required, and we particularly encourage applicants from other backgrounds such as English or Comparative Literatures.
The organizers would like to express their sincere gratitude for logistical and resource support to the following institutes and departments at ASU. Support for ASU's application to the NEH was enabled by a Research Strategy Grant from the Humanities Institute at ASU, and the organizers gratefully acknowledge the Humanities Institute's support:
The Asia Center
Humanities Institute
The School of International Letters and Culture
Global Asia Lecture Series: Writing Violence
As part of ASU's commitment to global engagement, sustainability and future-oriented knowledge and research, the Asia Center at the Arizona State University is organizing a series of virtual lectures for the 2023-2024 academic year on the theme of "Global Asia in a Multipolar World." This virtual lecture series highlights research from prominent scholars in an array of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond, broadly centered on Inter-Asian networks and flows of ideas, peoples and texts across national and linguistic borders.
This is the fifth lecture in our series, and it will be provided by Dr. David Atherton, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. This talk is titled "The Problem, Promise, and Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature." Please click here for more information.
The Kindness of Color: The Story of Two Families by Janice Munemitsu
This lecture was a part of the two days event, The Incarceration of Japanese-Americans in Arizona: Perspectives, Reflections, Afterlives. Hosted by the Asia Center, the Desert Humanities Initiatives, the Public History Program, the School of International Letters and Cultures, the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, this event took place on Friday, Feb 16th. This presentation was provided by Janice Munemitsu, covering the Japanese American Incarceration & School Desegregation of the 1940s. To access the video: please click here.
Arizona and Asia
Did you know that Arizona exported $9.5 Billion of Good and Services to the Indo-Pacific? Or that there are almost 307,000 Asian American living in this State? 73% of all international students in the state are from the Indo-Pacific and they spent $528M in 2020 alone. Please visit the East-West Center for more information.